Donald Trump received multiple photos of himself, Melania Trump got a sterling silver jewelry box from the Queen and a $5,800 bottle of Japanese whisky given to Mike Pompeo has gone missing.
The gifts, handed out to Trump administration officials by foreign leaders in 2019, were revealed in a new filing in the Federal Register on Wednesday.
The State Department's Office of Protocol is required to record gifts given to U.S. officials over $390 in value and keep track of their disposition. Recipients either have to turn them over to the National Archives or another government entity or purchase them for personal use at their valued cost.
The missing Japanese whisky as given to then Secretary of State Pompeo in June 2019, presumably when he was there for a G20 meeting.
But it's location is listed as 'unknown.'
'The department is looking into the matter and has an ongoing inquiry,' it said in the Federal Register notice.
The State Department's Office of Protocol released gifts foreign leaders gave U.S. officials in 2019; The Queen gave Donald Trump a first edition copy of The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill - the abridged version - and she gave Melania Trump a specially commissioned sterling silver jewelry box with enamel lid
A $5,800 bottle of Japanese whisky given to then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the 2019 G20 meeting (above) has gone missing
Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong gave Donald Trump a painting of Trump 'on dual pane glass' valued at $5,250
A representative for Pompeo told the Associated Press that Pompeo 'has no knowledge of the gift and has not been contacted by anyone regarding an investigation of it.'
And The New York Times reported the U.S. government was never paid for the bottle and the State Department has asked its inspector general to determine what happened to it.
It's illegal for an official to keep a gift without purchasing it and the person could face civil penalties.
The filing in the Federal Register noted Trump and former first lady Melania received more than $120,000 worth of
